Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those of the U.S.S.R. - as brought out in your fine and important cover story on Dr. Edward Teller - is truly appalling. In light of this emergency where the security of our nation is involved, I think our quibbling, pussyfootiing, philosophizing, and hairsplitting over federal aid to education are ridiculous. Let's get with it. But fast...
...thought you went to college here. Boy, I get this night duty once every couple of weeks, and let me tell you it really...
...question is, then, whether a free society can afford to let those who want to glide through school and thus waste needed talent. Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, states the case for those who wish to require a more rigorous curriculum. "In the best of all possible worlds, we could be elated that man has unshackled himself from earth gravity. Unfortunately, we don't live in the best of all possible worlds...
...Loud huzzas) "Let's go. Tear it down. I'm starved." The Annunciator Drum and Bugle Corps laced into and out of "The Stars and Stripes Forever," dogs growled, flashbulbs popped. In a thick cloud of cigar fumes, the Council stood on the curb, anxiously awaiting the historic moment. Hizzoner, Monseigneur Hickey, and other luminaries mounted the huge bulldozer for pictures...
...pleading for mathematics I am not recommending that they replace other basic subjects. Let them replace things like 'how to have a successful date' and 'how can my home be made democratic' and 'how to predict business trends.' We need foreign languages now more than ever. We need history and geography. We need ability to read, write and speak and think clearly . . . How fortunate it is that Galileo, Newton, Beethoven, Faraday and Pasteur had not been taught to work in an 'atmosphere of social awareness...